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Fastest browser engine by far at 500 FPS! Servo Webrender - CSS on the GPU part 1: Rust

𝓖𝓷𝓸𝓶𝓮💫𝓢𝓪𝓷𝓮 · talk · Watch on YouTube

Web developmentC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesComputer graphics & rendering

What it is

An excerpt from a Bay Area Rust meetup on Servo's WebRender, which renders CSS display lists on the GPU at very high frame rates. It explains the approach and demos rendering at around 500 FPS.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to it when discussing how WebRender works and as evidence of what GPU-based browser rendering can achieve.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2017

What HN commenters said

  1. “If you have the time there is a nice talk about WebRender”

    Talk explaining how WebRender sends pages to the GPU.

    NiLSPACE, 2017-04 · Recommendation · in “Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foundations”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: servo, webrender, rust, gpu rendering, css, mozilla

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